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Reply | Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury
at 13:53 29 Jul 2025
The leading player in the shareholders' bond group is a guy called Whittingham, of whom the BBC says in another article:
Whittingham has been a director at 25 companies during his career, according to Companies House. Of those 25 companies, 18 have been either dissolved, voluntarily dissolved, put into administration, put into liquidation, or put into receiver action (the precursor stage to liquidation).
Two of Whittingham's companies had been dissolved by compulsory strike-off prior to his takeover of Morecambe - but he still passed the EFL's owners' and directors' test. |
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Reply | Ramsgate leaving saints will be big for us
at 11:20 29 Jul 2025
I've always felt that, if Ramsdale had been around in 1922, his name would have entitled him to a place in the legendary Barnstoneworth Utd team. [Post edited 29 Jul 13:40]
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Reply | Forrest Green Rovers
at 18:00 22 Jul 2025
I think the slogan on the back that tells you that “no leopards were harmed in the making of this shirt” clutters it up a bit. |
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Reply | Ben Doak
at 16:12 18 Jul 2025
Having read that both Jaden and Clarke are left-sided players, I observe that they're both predominately right-footed, which is where, I think, Jaden was deployed in the England U21s. I note also that Omari's eye-catching England performances were on the left. Most seem to feel that Omari is not best used as a no10, so I don't automatically see, apart from his charisma and sometime wow factor, that a direct replacement is required. |
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Reply | Ben Doak
at 15:26 18 Jul 2025
Given our wealth of wide-men / no 10s , and our dearth of credible midfielder behind them, do we, at this stage, even need an Omari replacement? What do others think? |
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Reply | Any of you lot remember this
at 15:23 18 Jul 2025
I remember Matthews playing at Town, not sure if it was the same match, or not. Anyway, I very frequently used to pore over the only Topical Times football annual I ever owned, in which was a cartoon. It pictured a winger loafing about by the touchline, and saying to a team-mate, "I hate these friendlies; too much standing about on wet grass." It perfectly exemplified the long-past-his-best Sir Stanley, when I eventually got to see him at P.R. |
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Reply | Alf's 5 forwards
at 14:40 18 Jul 2025
The professional game was no different. Larry Carberry, who played nearly 300 times for Town, never scored. He was one of the five who won Div 3(S), Div 2 and Div 1 with Town, and under Sir Alf. |
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Reply | Alf's 5 forwards
at 13:53 18 Jul 2025
"What the OP has done is reinforced my opinion that Alf was our best ever manager. He was as innovative as any manager in English football since WW2, took a nondescript side from the third division to become champions of England, a one-off never to be repeated"
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Absolutely. What a stunning and underrated achievement. Some on the media compared Leicester's triumph with our own. But while there's no denying that Leicester's was a terrific achievement, it was not done without sizeable investment and purchases that were not entirely unknown - unlike Alf's rag-tag army at a sleepy Ipswich that had only been in the league at all for 17 seasons, and who, only 18 seasons before, had been known to taste defeat at the likes of the mighty Guildford City. |
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Reply | Brentford closing in on Omari
at 13:38 18 Jul 2025
But I am puzzled when I keep reading that Brentford see him as a replacement for Mbuemo as they are quite different players. Maybe Omari could adapt to play a more direct type of game, but the contrast in physique suggests that Brentford haven't really lined him up as a direct replacement. |
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Reply | Any of you lot remember this
at 13:31 18 Jul 2025
There was always a cheer when a big Centre Half, say Andy Nelson came across to clear the ball and launched it out into Portman Rd just for good measure.
You could also sometimes hear people saying, "keep it on the island". |
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Reply | No rebound penalties at world cup
at 20:56 17 Jul 2025
It's a question.
"As to except" (Merriam Webster Dictionary). N.B. definition 3
"except conjunction"
variants or less commonly excepting
1
: on any other condition than that : unless
except you repent
2
: with this exception, namely
was inaccessible except by boat
3
: only —often followed by that
I would go except that it's too far
It's a "but" , not an exception. |
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Reply | No rebound penalties at world cup
at 18:25 17 Jul 2025
Except that it may well often be that it's the first yellow which should have been reconsidered, as I now note, Mark has already discussed. [Post edited 17 Jul 18:26]
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Reply | Alf's 5 forwards
at 15:12 17 Jul 2025
I well remember as a right back in junior school getting a cuff round the ear for straying over the halfway line. |
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